Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga (manga)

Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga (サルでも描けるまんが教室Saru demo egakeru manga kyōshitsu) is a parody instructional book by Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma.

Publication history

In Japan, the series was originally serialized in Shogakukan‘s Big Comic Spirits. Shogakukan later published the manga’s three tankōbon volumes between October 1990 and May 1992.

In the US, the series was serialized in Viz Media‘s Pulp from May 2001 to August 2002.

It is licensed in North America by Viz Media.

Reception

Pat King from Animefringe commends the manga for its “excellent parody of the manga industry” and its artwork that “would be right at home in classic issues of Mad Magazine“. Johanna Draper Carlson from Comics Worth Reading comments on the “vulgar but funny” adult contents of the manga with its “nudity and various scatological gags”. Carlo Santos commends the manga for its “rundown of every major genre, by demographic” and praises the manga above other “How-to Art” books.

Canadian cartoonist and writer Bryan Lee O’Malley described the book as a significant influence on the art style of his Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series.

 

Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga
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First English edition of Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga, as published by Viz Media
サルでも描けるまんが教室
(Saru demo egakeru manga kyōshitsu)
Genre Comedyparody
Manga
Written by Koji Aihara
Kentaro Takekuma
Published by Shogakukan
English publisher
Magazine Big Comic Spirits
English magazine
Demographic Seinen
Original run 1990 – 1991
Volumes 3

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